10. For mine enemies speak against me. Dogs
howl over a dying lion. When David’s arm was able to chastise his foes, they
were yet impudent enough to slander him, and he fears that now they will take
fresh license in the hour of his weakness. The text most properly means that
his enemies had said that God would forsake him; and therefore he is the more
earnest that the Lord’s faithful dealings may give them the lie. And they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together. The psalmist had enemies,
and these were most malicious; seeking his utter destruction, they were very
persevering; to this they added cunning, for they lay in ambush to surprise
him; and all this they did with the utmost unanimity and deliberation. The Lord
our God is our only and all-sufficient resort from every form of persecution.
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